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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Wow. What a clever idea, Amazon, to insult the integrity of a writer who brings you thousands of sales.
There is no way Hachette would "pose this idea" because it would hurt them financially much more than Amazon. Some of the publishing industry English major types may be a little slower to add up a column of numbers than the Carnegie Mellon computer science grads at Amazon, but they do figure it out. See:
The New Amazon Offer to Hachette
Full disclosure is that Richard Russo has long been my favorite living novelist. |
I've been impressed with Amazon's communications. They've been professional and well planned out. They haven't been dragged down to the mud slinging that has been thrown at them. They obviously have a great communication team.
Ironically all the hyperbole and personal attacks has been coming from the authors that have taken up the call to quills on both sides.